Vehicle-body.



PATBNTBD JUNE 7, 1904.

A. G. BRUNSMAN. VEHICLE BODY. APELIOATION FILED DEC. 10, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

ANTHONY G. BRUNSMAN, OF. CINCINNATI, OHIO.

VEHICLE-BODY.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 71*-,8i6, dated June'7', 1904.

Application filed Decembar lO, 1993. Se1ialN0. 184:.602. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANTHONY G. BRUNSMAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residingin Cin-- cinnati, county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Bodies, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to the construction of object to keep the body ofthe vehicle from becoming loose in the framework, and thus loosening thepanels and opening up of the body at the corner.

The invention consists of that certain novel construction andarrangement of parts to be hereinafter particularly pointed out andclaimed, whereby the seat-buck is braced and strengthened, so as tobecome rigid and secure against the racking strain to which the seatconstruction of such vehicle is submitted. Seat-risers are usuallyprovided for such vehicle-bodies, so that the seat itself and thestrains to which it is submitted have atendency to-weaken and 'open upthe panels of the seat-body at the corners.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvements withthe seat itself removed. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of on of thecorner-irons.

A A are the side panels, and B C the front and rear panels, of anordinary vehicle-body. These panels are secured to the sill D of thebody and are braced together at the corners by the corner-posts a a andb b. p

E E are the seat-risers for sustaining the seat, mounted on the sidepanels at the proper position. These seat-risers and the seat itself arebraced and supported by the usual seat buck, which consists of theupright cornerposts 0' c, mounted and secured on the sill D and providedwith the end pieces a e and the cross bars ff'to make a substantialframework. As has been intimated,this framework,

however, is not sufficiently strong and rigid to bear the strains towhich it is subjected without the support of the side panels andseat-risers, so that in the ordinary construction the strain istransmitted to the side panels,

and there is a tendency for them to weaken or open up at the corners. Toovercome this difficulty, I provide as follows: E representscorner-irons or metallic plates provided with a flat upper surface g toembrace the top surface of the seat-buck frame at the four upper cornersand with a flange 7b to engage the side pieces ff of the seat-buck and atongue or lip l to be sunk into the upper surface of the seat-risers.Passing through the openings m in the flanges it of the corner-irons arethe horizontal bolts n, which run from the front to the rear and can beproperly tightened by the nuts on the ends of the bolts. 1) p are theseat-bolts, which are of sufficient length to extend from the seat downthrough the openings 1? in the corner-irons and through the sill D.Instead of using the seat-bolts p p for securing the seat and at thesame time strengthening the seat-buck vertically separate seat-bolts maybe used, and these bolts p p merely extend from the corner-irons F downthrough the sill. As above described, the corner-irons F are thusrigidly secured in place at the corners of the seat-buck bythehorizontal and vertical bolts 12,19, and at .the sametime theseat-risers E E are secured to and held rigid with the seat-buck by thelips Z on the corner-irons.

With this construction of seat-buck braced and strengthened by the boltsand corner-irons a very rigid and durable construction is obtained. Inaddition to this the seat itself will rest securely and rigidly on thefour cornerirons, and the weight of the occupants of the the front andrear of the frame to brace the 1 parts together.

2. In a vehicle-body, the combination with and through the side piecesand sill, vertically, to brace the parts together.

4. In a vehicle-body, a corner-iron for bracing the corners of theseat-frame, consisting of a flat angular portion to embrace the side andend of the frame, having a flange to em brace the front of the cross-barof the frame and a lip portion to be sunk into the top surface of theseat-riser.

ANTHONY (i. BRUNSA I'AN.

\Vitnesses:

C. B. CONWELL, SAML. E. ALLEN.

